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26.12.04 |
Hello
Friends,
We got your e-mail and pictures yesterday ! It was great to see a
pictures of you three, now four !! We wish you many happy
and safe trails this year and many more to come !
We do hope you can come to the US soon. The EURO is
so much higher than the dollar, it should be a good time to come over. We
could plan a trip together, or stay at our house and do short trips in
this area. We love the back roads around here and have never found any
others that are any nicer for bicycling. So far our only trip we
have already planned, is for the third week in May. We will be going on
our annual trip with 20 old time friends, this year to Cape Cod, including
the islands. I think you guys have already been there, in '99 right?
The pictures attached are of Lili and our 7yr. old granddaughter
Haley(and her dog Dakota). We were biking on a trail that is only a mile
from our house. It is about 40 miles in length, but we know many, many
nice places in this state, as well as some nice quiet roads. Most people
that visit NJ never see this part of it and only see the terrible, nasty,
over crowded eastern part near N.Y.C. However, if
you do come here and want to go into NY for a day, we can all take a car
or two and visit. So far we have not gotten our sailboat in the
water yet ! But I am hoping this will be the year of the boat. If we do
get her out of drydock, that would be a fun thing for us all to do, too.
Best Regards,
Capt'n Jack & Lili
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11.01.05 |
Dear
Lili and dear Jack !
It's performed - we come.
on 17.July 2005 in the afternoon to JFK
until 18.August.
Cheers
4unterwegs |
http://www.talkaboutusa.com/
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12.01.05 |
Hi
Lili and Jack !
Today
we´ve got our airline tickets. So
we have still 6 mounth for preperation. What we want to cycle is starting
from your home than southbound via
Delaware river to Philadelphia, than further via Washington D.C. to
Virginia Beach. Than to the north via Ocean City
and Cape May to New York City (or beside). All about could be arround 1000
miles. Even now we have to investigate, how we can pass the bridge from
Norfolk to the peninsula. If it could be a heavy problem, we could take a
boat to Crisfield from Smith point. But we have much time to find out the
best routing. Our maximum endurance per day ends arround 70 miles - in
special case. Most importend is to find out campgrounds on the route after
about 30 – 40 miles and where it is possible to cycle on quiet
roads or roads with wide sholders.
What kind of map do you use ? Here in Germany we have very good maps.
Best
regards
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13.01.05 |
Hi
Bikers,
I see by your photo, how much you have grown Miss Sophie!!
And Rainer, I see you have made some definite trip plans already! I
will e-mail you soon my Journal, from our 1999 East Coast Trip. When Lili
and I biked north from Florida, we covered some of this same ground,
passing through Washington DC, but not Philly. Washington is of
course a very, very busy area, as are Philadelphia and Baltimore too. In
Washington we used a nice (but also very busy) bike path that is on the
west bank of the Potomac River. Most of the regular roads in that area are
NOT SAFE FOR BICYCLES AT ALL !!!!! See my Journal !!!!
We did not attempt to cross over to the Del-Mar-Va peninsula and I
will have to find out how one can do that with bikes. It may require
hiring a private boat(?), or more likely, getting trucked across the
bridge-tunnel. I am sure the BAY-Bridge Authority has to deal with this
regularly.
In general, we much prefer to bike on quiet, scenic roads. As you
probably already know, bicycles are not always given as much courtesy in
the US, as they might enjoy in most of Europe. The trip you have planned
will require some study, to find roads that are suitable for bike travel.
We are planning to drive to Florida for a couple of weeks, so I
might be out of touch for a while. More bike trip planning when we get
home in February. Tomorrow evening, I will dig up my journal and read your
web pages too.
Talk to you soon,
Capt'n Jack |
http://www.transalt.org/bridges/
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19.01.05 |
After studying the internet and several books we have more ideas
which route we will follow. One part of our tour will follow the C&O
Canal/Washington DC trail from Cumberland (West Virginia) to Washington
DC. That´s for sure. In Wahington itself are several cycle trails. To start we would follow the Delaware river until
Trenton. But if we would cycle along the coast is not yet
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04.02.05 |
Hallo
Lili ! Hallo Jack !
We all hope your are
not to much bored during your holidays on Florida. Have you got your bikes
with you? In the last 2 weeks we´ve studied the area round your home and
around the way we would go on bike and we must say: you´re right. We
shouldn´t go into "the terrible,
nasty,
over crowded eastern part near N.Y.C." If we would start from your
home the first leg should be to the Delaware Water Gap. There are several
campgrounds near East Stroudsburg. How many miles would it make? Then
we would cycle further on to Scranton (about 50 miles). From Scranton we
would follow the Susquehanna River southwestbound to Harrisburg, after
that via the Juniata River to Bedford,(or alternatively via Gettysburg)
further to Cumberland and than along the C&O Canal or Potamac River
till Washington and than, of course to the Sea, regardless the millions of
vacationists. If the route to Scraton is full of steep hills we have a
secound option. From Stroudsburg along the Delaware river to
Phillipsburg, then to Harrisburg via Allentown, then via Gettysburg
to Frederick. Third option is to start on the Raleigh Bay to follow the
keys northbound via Virginia Beach, Cape May and NYC (about 700 miles ?)
But Amtrak let us know they wouldn´t take a tandem with. But if we would
take it in a box, who cares?
While
we studied our proposed routing we remembered a movie : Groundhog day in
Punxsutawney with acteur Bill Murray. Well, Punxsutawney (is that Welsh ?
) is not on our proposed routing, but Groundhogs are so sweety, that from
now Groundhog Phil will tell you about the tour 11 - tour de Groundhog
Phil. |
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11.05.05 |
Our
proposed routing is planed. There are still many things to take into
account and some thinks may still have to change. But it´s also a general
overview. Now we can start planing our accomodation for the tour,
especialy for New York and Washington DC. |
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